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Koichi Tanaka

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Also known as Tanaka, Koichi

Japanese chemist

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2002

    “for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Kōichi
Gender
male
Citizenship
Japan
Place of birth
Toyama
Occupation
engineer
Languages spoken
Japanese
Field of work
chemistry
Image
Koichi Tanaka 2003.jpg
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date of birth
1959-10-03
name in kana
たなか こういち
name in native language
田中耕一
Commons category
Kōichi Tanaka
interested in
chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Koichi Tanaka (田中 耕一, Tanaka Kōichi; born August 3, 1959) is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich (the latter for work in NMR spectroscopy).

Early life and education

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